Word: hip-hop
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...fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important." Senator JOHN KERRY, responding to a viewer's question during an MTV Choose or Lose forum...
...these days, the question "Shall we dance?" is both an invitation and a challenge. Hip-hop dance battles?much like the M.C. face-offs in the film 8 Mile?are becoming mainstream. The dance-battle scene has inspired a TV show (MTV's Wade Robson Project) and a film (You Got Served), and it even popped up at the Vatican (the Pope recently blessed an acrobatic, b-boy performance). "It's funny that it's being recognized on this level now, because it's been around, dominating in the urban centers for 30 years," says Crazy Legs, 38, a choreographer...
When the music happens on hard drives, never really existing outside of virtual space, it conflates composition and performance. In hip-hop, the voice is only half the equation if not less—beyond lyricism, freestyles and all that, the musical invention is happening on the level of the sampler and sequencer. You’d think hip-hop would be incredible live, but at this point the music has a hard time straddling its two worlds. Little surprise, then, that the Roots put on the best hip-hop show I’ve ever seen...
This is why “Mad” Mike Banks, one founder of the seminal Detroit producer/DJ collective Underground Resistance, said “techno is deadlier than rap” even though the latter’s the one that yells in your face. Electronic music (modern hip-hop, which is indeed 95 percent electronic, is still 5 percent “real”) takes you from all angles. It implicates you directly as part of the phenomenon—forces (assumes, even) a response because it is effect. It could hurt you or captivate...
...past with the present - showing shrunken jackets over full, tulip-shaped skirts, or, in Watanabe's case, pumping up the strictly tailored 1950s couture jacket by cutting it from down-filled nylon. Watanabe called his clothes "classic in all senses, regardless of the period." And his mix of hip-hop inspired baggy denim and snug jackets - cut to resemble Christian Dior's famous 1950s numbers - looked modern and romantic at the same time. Also going back to the future was Olivier Theyskens, who reinvented Rochas by combining the house's signature frilly black lace and ruffled tiers of organza with...